Before all the right wingnuts get all bent out of shape about "Why is this on Ars?", just think about this:

Trump is a moron and a criminal. Clearly the Senate has no intention of challenging him on either count so it's now up to the voters to enforce.

So get used to it. Between now and November there will be constant reminders that Trump's supporters are getting behind someone who is a demonstrable moron and a proven criminal. If you're bothered by someone pointing that out, maybe you need to rethink your support.

Before all the right wingnuts get all bent out of shape about "Why is this on Ars?", just think about this:

Trump is a moron and a criminal. Clearly the Senate has no intention of challenging him on either count so it's now up to the voters to enforce.

So get used to it. Between now and November there will be constant reminders that Trump's supporters are getting behind someone who is a demonstrable moron and a proven criminal. If you're bothered by someone pointing that out, maybe you need to rethink your support.

In the early years of the 20th century, the German Kaiser was a well known loose cannon who made extremely undiplomatic remarks which had to be smoothed over, and went around promoting some highly unsuitable people and some very strange ideas.

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Well of course. He can't accept he's wrong or looks dumb at times. Well, a lot of times. Anyone ever try to read transcripts of his speeches or a rally? Crazy.

It isn't only him. The Independent once published a literal transcription of one of Boris Johnson's speeches, and it was equally bad. And then there's the Australian PM...another one cut from the same cloth.

Quem deus perdere vult, dementat prius. The trouble is that it seems it is the English speaking world God wants to destroy, and is doing it by sending our rulers mad.

If you vote for this shambling corpse in November 2020 because of your hatred of colored people, desire to gut the government, whatever... welp, there's a reason why people on the left are starting to or already are viewing you with an odd mixture of hatred and pity.

Well of course. He can't accept he's wrong or looks dumb at times. Well, a lot of times. Anyone ever try to read transcripts of his speeches or a rally? Crazy.

It isn't only him. The Independent once published a literal transcription of one of Boris Johnson's speeches, and it was equally bad. And then there's the Australian PM...another one cut from the same cloth.

Quem deus perdere vult, dementat prius. The trouble is that it seems it is the English speaking world God wants to destroy, and is doing it by sending our rulers mad.

The constant here is that.... Rupert Murdoch created his media entities in the English speaking world.

Before all the right wingnuts get all bent out of shape about "Why is this on Ars?", just think about this:

Trump is a moron and a criminal. Clearly the Senate has no intention of challenging him on either count so it's now up to the voters to enforce.

So get used to it. Between now and November there will be constant reminders that Trump's supporters are getting behind someone who is a demonstrable moron and a proven criminal. If you're bothered by someone pointing that out, maybe you need to rethink your support.

And that there's only two less-than-completely-corrupt republicans in the entirety of the federal government.

He must know. Nobody, truly believes they can just take a sharpie to a map and change the entire narrative of a hurricane. That's far, far beyond the Steve Job's reality distortion field. He knows it's a dumb thing, but he can't help himself.

I fear the US missed it's one chance to correct course by rejecting witnesses in the Senate. Trump needed to be struck down and humiliated in public to the extent that even the most rural farmer would have felt sorry for him. Now all they see is the reality that the system really is broken, and Trump successfully hijacked it.

If by some miracle Trump is voted out in November all that's likely to happen is Fox and the Trump-fold will convince themselves of foul play, work themselves into a fervor, and the country will continue to devolve into civil war. Trump won't hesitate to use the military against democratic cities under the guise of "restoring order" and the transformation of the Great American Experiment into Putin's Great Success will be complete.

I always thought I was lucky to live in the age of technology, but I never suspected that connecting and giving everyone a voice would lead to the death of democracy. And how ironic that all this might have been avoided in a true democracy without the Senate, which is by it's design undemocratic.

"You have no idea how hard I'm fighting to keep politics out of science," Jacobs wrote to one NOAA employee.

Take a hint, Eric

The worst current culprit of politics not only being in science, but horribly corrupting it, is clear.

Either you're against Trump and the enablement of him the Republican party has bent over backwards to provide, to the point of abrogating the oaths of office of nearly every Republican holding federal office, or you ARE the problem.

There's no longer room to pretend that there aren't sides.

There's clearly not room to pretend that "science", or rather the practice thereof, is continuing unaffected.

There's no longer room to pretend that "both sides" are equal and therefore some room exists to stand and cast aspersions generally without being part of making things worse.

At this point the only meaningful fight to keep "politics out of science" is the fight to get Republicans out of office.

Well of course. He can't accept he's wrong or looks dumb at times. Well, a lot of times. Anyone ever try to read transcripts of his speeches or a rally? Crazy.

It isn't only him. The Independent once published a literal transcription of one of Boris Johnson's speeches, and it was equally bad. And then there's the Australian PM...another one cut from the same cloth.

Quem deus perdere vult, dementat prius. The trouble is that it seems it is the English speaking world God wants to destroy, and is doing it by sending our rulers mad.

The constant here is that.... Rupert Murdoch created his media entities in the English speaking world.

Before all the right wingnuts get all bent out of shape about "Why is this on Ars?", just think about this:

Trump is a moron and a criminal. Clearly the Senate has no intention of challenging him on either count so it's now up to the voters to enforce.

So get used to it. Between now and November there will be constant reminders that Trump's supporters are getting behind someone who is a demonstrable moron and a proven criminal. If you're bothered by someone pointing that out, maybe you need to rethink your support.

He does new stupid stuff all the time. If we waste time re-visiting all the old stupid stuff he's done, we'll never cover it all.

We already had several good articles on this a couple of months ago. What new information is covered such that this needs to be brought up again?

Before all the right wingnuts get all bent out of shape about "Why is this on Ars?", just think about this:

Trump is a moron and a criminal. Clearly the Senate has no intention of challenging him on either count so it's now up to the voters to enforce.

So get used to it. Between now and November there will be constant reminders that Trump's supporters are getting behind someone who is a demonstrable moron and a proven criminal. If you're bothered by someone pointing that out, maybe you need to rethink your support.

He does new stupid stuff all the time. If we waste time re-visiting all the old stupid stuff he's done, we'll never cover it all.

We already had several good articles on this a couple of months ago. What new information is covered such that this needs to be brought up again?

RTA (though he did bury the lede)

Quote:

The release of hundreds of emails on Friday night, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by BuzzFeed News investigative reporter Jason Leopold, reveals the confusion and anger last year in the wake of the president's Alabama tweets, Oval Office appearance, and then the NOAA statement.

We already had several good articles on this a couple of months ago. What new information is covered such that this needs to be brought up again?

1. He didn't do that. You have no proof.2. He didn't do that. Your proof is wrong.3. He did that for good and noble reasons. Your proof is wrong.4. It's old news that he did that. There's no need to see the proof of your proof that he was self-serving or corrupt.5. F*ck you. I've got Mitch McConnell.

"You have no idea how hard I'm fighting to keep politics out of science," Jacobs wrote to one NOAA employee.

Take a hint, Eric

Someone who doesn't know any history of science once again fantasises that "pure" science exists independent of society.

Yeah, the 'logic' Trump supporters want us to follow continues to be remarkable. To wit: "So what the guy in charge of the government tried to inject politics into methods used to track-and warn the citizens about- a hurricane and in the process besmirched those tasked to protect us! Never mind all that! You hate Trump and reporting on this only shows it!" (Although probably not as eloquently as I put it. You get the idea.)